Traditionally, December 28th in Spain is pretty much like April 1st in other countries, so I just felt appropiate to post today about this airport. It is (sadly) not a joke, but a good example of wasting huge sums of money in an unviable airport right in the middle of nowhere. I still get pretty mad whenever I think of this airport !

Here are some pages from their first (and last, as far as I can tell) official airport schedules, at a time when Air Nostrum and Air Berlin flew there (Ryanair and Vueling also had Ciudad Real as their destinations at some time) and also some pages from their magazine, which despite the nonsense are interesting to take a look at almost 5 years after the first flight landed there.

This is a cargo guide (listing also road feeder services) but it shows the whole Swissair (and Crossair) system timetable, since all flights carried freight. It is interesting to take a look at the large Swiss domestic network operated by both airline at the time.

Enlaces (links)

Copia del horario completo en PDF en este enlace: PDF file with the whole timetable is available at this link:

ČSA was founded in 1923 and is one of the oldest airlines still flying today. In 1978 they were celebrating its 55th anniversary with this picture of one of its first aircraft and an IL62, which were used for longhaul flights.

I like this
very 70's mosaic depicting several ČSA planes at different destinations,
and also their classic livery; the "OK jet" is a clever use of the OK
code, which represents both the airline and its home country. I am not
so sure it would work as a marketing device today, or the "Fly OK, Fly
ČSA" slogan, though.

bmibaby was ✈BMI low cost airline and it was shut down when BMI mainline was bought by IAG and integrated into British Airways. It started as a fully independent airline, but it got greater integration with BMI mainline over time (FFP schemes, etc)

By 2001, the German branch of British Airways was mostly a regional carrier connecting Oneworld hubs in Madrid and London to its domestic German network. It also codeshared with TAP and with Finnair. US Airways was still tied with BA and thus the Philadelphia-Munich flight was also listed.